Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray . |
| 3 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 4 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 5 | She could just imagine him closing in for the kill . |
| 6 | ‘ Good , Fox is on remand in Saughton , I 'll get him brought down for an ID parade , Strathclyde will bring Dalton through for us . |
| 7 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 8 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 9 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 10 | The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town . |
| 11 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 12 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 13 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 14 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 15 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 16 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 17 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 19 | ‘ He came back for the church 's centenary , ’ Mr Hickman recalled . |
| 20 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 21 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 22 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 23 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 24 | He bumbled around for a bit , trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps . |
| 25 | Logie and Dujon were steering the game their way when Dujon was bowled as he stepped back for a cover drive , and that was the turning point . |
| 26 | He glanced up for a moment towards the senator and Jacques Devraux . |
| 27 | Snuggling into his chair , he settled down for an hour or two 's tinkering . |
| 28 | PUPILS at a Middlesbrough school welcomed the Bishop of Whitby into their classrooms when he called in for a day 's visit . |
| 29 | He reached over for a whip in its cup . |
| 30 | He reached over for the glass and swallowed down the rest of its contents , eyeing her malevolently . |